Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1239C6353D4 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:57:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 98087-04-3 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:56:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from madmax.bizintegrators.com (madmax.bizintegrators.com [64.94.184.54]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3996348A2 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:44:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from shelca (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) (authenticated bits=0) by madmax.bizintegrators.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o36IiVMH004473 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:44:32 -0400 (EDT) References: Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Kevin Crain Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Configuration questions Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:45:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loftmail-Check: No X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 64.94.184.88 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.954 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=0.645, BAYES_00=-2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/54 X-Sequence-Number: 34148 Kevin Crain writes: > How do I configure postgres to lock a user's account after X failed login > attempts, where X is an arbitrary number. Don't think there is a way to do that. Perhaps using an authentication mechanism that supports that and then using it to connect to Postgres.. This page may be of interest: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/auth-methods.html > Also is there a way to limit the number of concurrent connections on a per > account basis? Don't think there is an option for that either.